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mobi |eng | 1995-01-02 | Author:Howard Zinn

The conditions of women working in a Milwaukee brewery were described by Mother Mary Jones, who worked there briefly in 1910 (she was close to eighty at this time): Condemned ...

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EDWARD VI Reigned 1547–1553 Edward was born in 1537 at Hampton Court. He was a precocious and rather priggish child – serious, scholarly and dedicated to the Protestant religion. He ...

epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Lewis, Dan

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Cinematographer Roger Deakins focuses on actress Hailee Steinfeld as she swims the river on a mechanical horse in the Coen brothers’ version of True Grit. Cut to: Hailee Steinfeld’s stunt ...

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At the Battle of Ridgeway, the Canadian troops suffered ten dead and thirty-eight wounded. The Fenians lost only a handful of men. Colonel John O’Neil, a Civil War cavalry veteran ...

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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. ...

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